Animating hatreds: research encounters, organisational secrets, emotional truths

About the book: Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed. This gives rise to a number of questions. What are the silences, secrets, omissions and and political consequences of such moments? What particular dilemmas and constraints do they represent or entail? What are their implications for research praxis? Are such moments always indicative of voicelessness or powerlessness? Or may they also constitute a productive moment in the research encounter? Contributors to this volume were invited to reflect on these questions. The resulting chapters are a fascinating collection of insights into the research process, making an important contribution to theoretical and empirical debates about epistemology, subjectivity and identity in research. Researchers often face difficult dilemmas about who to represent and how, what to omit and what to include. This book explores such questions in an important and timely collection of essays from international scholars

Birthing racial difference: conversations with my mother and others

This article uses autobiographical material to explore how 'race' has operated as structuring principle in Britain since the end of the Second World War. It stages an encounter between lived experience (as revealed through memory) and psychoanalytic and sociological texts. The article attempts to show how 'life' is both captured by these traditions of thought and how it exceeds them. The focus is on the material and emotional registers of intersubjectivity across the divisions of black and white. The article is punctuated by brief moments of musical interruption which illustrate the pervasive presence of gendered, raced and sexed in artefacts of popular culture

Living the differences: ethnicity, gender and social work

This thesis concerns the entry of black women into local authority social service departments as qualified social workers in the 1980s. It argues that this entry needs to be understood in the context of a moment of racial formation and social regulation in which specific black populations were managed through a regime of governmentality in which 'new black subjects' were formed. These 'new black subjects' were constituted as 'ethnic-minorities' out of an earlier form of being as 'immigrants'. Central to this process of reconstitution was a discourse of black family forms as pathological and yet governable through the intervention of state agencies. As such, social work as a specific form of state organised intervention, articulated to a discourse of 'race' and black family formations. This articulation suggested that the management of those black families who could be defined as pathological or 'in need required a specific 'ethnic' knowledge and in this way a space for the entry of black women into qualified social work was created. This process also intersected with a time of riotous rebellion in many inner city areas and a moment of municipal socialism in which demands on the part of social movements for social reparation for inequality had been incorporated into the manifestos of political parties. This made it incumbent on such authorities to promote equality of employment opportunity within their departments. Whilst the discourses of 'race'/ethnicity and equal opportunities provided the impetus for the employment of black women as qualified social workers the understanding and experience of this employment was mediated through a sense of organisational and managerial exclusion. Thus the thesis ends with a consideration of the accounts of numerous black women social workers and their multi-racial, female and male managers

The sibling relationships of bulimic women.

This study explores the role of bulimia in a woman\u27s relationship with her siblings. While there is a growing body of literature on siblings and on bulimia, there is little written about the overlap between these two topics. This study is an attempt to fill that gap. Thirty-two women who had participated in an Intensive Treatment Program (ITP) for bulimia were the subjects. There were four groups of eight women each. Their comments about their sibling relationships were tracked through five components of the program: group therapy, multi-family therapy, family seminar, genograms, one year follow-up. All of their comments related to their siblings were transcribed from the video recordings of the therapies and the seminar. Each of the sibling comments was sorted into categories of common messages. The study reports on all four ITP groups, and gives details about the women from one ITP group and their sibling relationships are given. Transcripts from their group therapy and multi-family therapy, and their comments from the seminar on family roles are reported. Comments from a one year multi-family therapy follow-up questionnaire from women in several ITP groups are also reported. Comments about siblings were categorized into seven types of communication messages: equalizing, dirty fighting, connecting, flagging, deflecting, separating, and peacemaking. Selection of the messages into the categories were checked by independent raters. There was a high consistency in the categorization. All but one woman had at least one message, and over half of them had either two or three types of messages for one or more siblings. Three themes for understanding the use of bulimia in the sibling relationship are highlighted: bulimia as an indirect expression of affect to a sibling; as a means of getting out of a complementary role with a sibling, and as an expression of an immobilizing ambivalence in the sibling relationship. Although a descriptive study, the results suggest that sibling relationships are one important factor in the onset or maintenance of a woman\u27s bulimia

Web Development for the Home Builders Associoation Serving Portage and Summit Counties

Gail Lewis White Major: Business and Organizational Communication Project Sponsor: Dr. Sylvia White Number of Project Credits: 3 Abstract This Honors project redesigned the website of the Home Builders Association serving greater Portage and Summit counties (HBA). The goal of the new website was to enhance the social media image and internet presence of the HBA. The project included a competitive analysis of competing websites throughout the construction industry and a thorough analysis of the HBA’s internal and external communications. Under the supervision of Vice President of Operations Carmine Torio, this project has met and surpassed the goals set by both the organization and myself. The primary objectives of the Home Builders Association were to create a website which increases the value of the association by serving as an extension of the organization. These web pages have been created in order to communicate the company’s objectives, promote its upcoming events and ongoing services and stimulate two-way communication with the desired internal and external audiences of potential home builders, contractors, tradesmen and associates

Chemical studies of the passivation of GaAs surface recombination using sulfides and thiols

Steady-state photoluminescence, time-resolved photoluminescence, and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy have been used to study the electrical and chemical properties of GaAs surfaces exposed to inorganic and organic sulfur donors. Despite a wide variation in S2–(aq) concentration, variation of the pH of aqueous HS–solutions had a small effect on the steady-state n-type GaAs photoluminescence intensity, with surfaces exposed to pH=8, 0.1-M HS–(aq) solutions displaying comparable luminescence intensity relative to those treated with pH=14, 1.0-M Na2S·9H2O(aq). Organic thiols (R-SH, where R=–CH2CH2SH or –C6H4Cl) dissolved in nonaqueous solvents were found to effect increases in steady-state luminescence yields and in time-resolved luminescence decay lifetimes of (100)-oriented GaAs. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy showed that exposure of GaAs surfaces to these organic systems yielded thiols bound to the GaAs surface, but such exposure did not remove excess elemental As and did not form a detectable As2S3 overlayer on the GaAs. These results imply that complete removal of As0 or formation of monolayers of As2S3 is not necessary to effect a reduction in the recombination rate at etched GaAs surfaces. Other compounds that do not contain sulfur but that are strong Lewis bases, such as methoxide ion, also improved the GaAs steady-state photoluminescence intensity. These results demonstrate that a general class of electron-donating reagents can be used to reduce nonradiative recombination at GaAs surfaces, and also imply that prior models focusing on the formation of monolayer coverages of As2S3 and Ga2S3 are not adequate to describe the passivating behavior of this class of reagents. The time-resolved, high level injection experiments clearly demonstrate that a shift in the equilibrium surface Fermi-level energy is not sufficient to explain the luminescence intensity changes, and confirm that HS– and thiol-based reagents induce substantial reductions in the surface recombination velocity through a change in the GaAs surface state recombination rate

Transferring biological control technology to Iowa strawberry growers

Growers receive nearly $3.5 million gross income from strawberry production in Iowa. Substitution of environmentally friendly, natural products and biological controls for the current chemical-intensive growing approaches will be critical to the expansion of strawberry production in Iowa

Of becoming and disturbance - one final offering: some thoughts on familiar stranger: a life between two islands

This piece offers some reflections and associations on Stuart Hall’s last book ‘Familiar Stranger’. Whilst noticing some of the familiar preoccupations and theoretical approaches that became associated with Hall’s work, the piece 10 notices the particular inflections of these in this last work. In doing so the piece comments on the affect of the book and draws attention to what seems to be the missing: an engagement with aspects of black feminist writing and how the content of ‘Familiar Stranger’ might help understand that

Comparison of drug use and psychiatric morbidity between prostitute and non-prostitute female drug users in Glasgow, Scotland

Aims: To compare psychiatric morbidity between 176 female drug users with lifetime involvement in prostitution (prostitutes) and 89 female drug users with no involvement (non-prostitutes) in Glasgow, Scotland. Method: The Revised Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS-R) measured current neurotic symptoms. Results: Prostitutes were more likely to report adult physical (OR 1.8) or sexual abuse (OR 2.4), to have attempted suicide (OR 1.7) and to meet criteria for current depressive ideas (OR 1.8) than non-prostitutes. Seventy-two percent of prostitutes and sixty-seven percent of non-prostitutes met criteria for a level of current neurotic symptoms likely to need treatment (CIS-R ≥18). Being in foster care (OR 8.9), being prescribed medication for emotional problems in the last 30 days (OR 7.7), adult sexual abuse (OR 4.5), poly drug use in the last 30 days (OR 3.6) and adult physical abuse (OR 2.6) were significantly associated with a CIS-R score of ≥18 for prostitutes using multiple logistic regression. Conclusions: Higher rates of adulthood abuse among prostitutes may explain the greater proportion of prostitutes than non-prostitutes meeting criteria for current depressive ideas and lifetime suicide attempts